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- Actress
- Editorial Department
Terri Jean Messina was a lovely and captivating brunette actress who popped up in a few movies and several TV shows during her regrettably brief acting career. Terri was born on December 17, 1945 in Northridge, Los Angeles, California. She first began acting in episodic television in 1967. Messina gave an especially fine and engaging performance as Maria, a naive and impressionable adolescent girl who foolishly idolizes hooker Jayne Mansfield in the offbeat Single Room Furnished (1966). Messina was likewise excellent and memorable as luscious teenage tramp Bunch in the gruesome horror shocker Blood and Lace (1971). Among the TV shows Terri made guest appearances on are Batman (1966), "Gidget," I Dream of Jeannie (1965), "The Monkees," Ironside (1967), Mannix (1967), Love, American Style (1969), and Room 222 (1969), Moreover, she served as an assistant editor on the 1976 John Cassavetes picture The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976). Messina was the longtime lover of singer/songwriter Gene Clark of the Byrds fame; the couple collaborated on the song "Feelin' Higher" (this particular tune was recorded by the band McGuinn, Clark & Hillman in 1979). She spent the last sixteen years of her life taking care of her parents. Terri Messina died at age 61 on August 21, 2007.- Siobhan Dowd was born in 1960 to Irish parents. She was brought up in London, but spent much of her youth visiting the family homes in County Waterford, then Wicklow town. She attended a Catholic grammar school in south London, and went on to receive a BA in Classics from Oxford University and an MA with distinction in Gender and Ethnic Studies from Greenwich University.
In 1984, she joined the writer's organisation International PEN, becoming Program Director of PEN American Center's Freedom-to-Write Committee in New York City. Her work there included founding and leading the Rushdie Defense Committee USA and travelling to Indonesia and Guatemala to investigate local human rights conditions for writers. During her seven-year stay in New York, Siobhan was named one of the 'top 100 Irish-Americans' by Irish-America Magazine and Aer Lingus for her global anti-censorship work.
On her return to the UK, Siobhan co-founded English PEN's readers and writers program. The program takes authors into schools in socially deprived areas, as well as prisons, young offender institutions and community projects.
During 2004, Siobhan served as Deputy Commissioner for Children's Rights in Oxfordshire, working with local government to ensure that statutory services affecting children's lives conform with UN protocols.
Siobhan edited two anthologies in the Threatened Literature Series for the Freedom to Write Committee of the PEN American Center: This Prison Where I live: The PEN anthology of imprisoned writers (Cassell, 1996) and, jointly with Ian Hancock and Rajko Djuric, The Roads of the Roma: a PEN Anthology of Gypsy writers (University of Hertfordshire Press, 1998 and 2004).
An invitation by Tony Bradman to contribute a story about a Pavee (an Irish Traveller) to his collection of short stories for children about racism, Skin Deep (Puffin, 2004), led to a new career as an author of children's books. It was through Tony that Siobhan was introduced to Hilary Delamere. Hilary became Siobhan's agent and continues to represent her titles, both as her agent and also as the executor of her literary estate. In 2007, Waterstone's identified Siobhan as one of the top '25 Authors of the Future'.
Siobhan died in August 2007, aged 47. In the very last days before she died, Siobhan set up The Siobhan Dowd Trust, who works to give young people the opportunity to read and enjoy literature. - Ed Kovens was born on 26 June 1934 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Bad Lieutenant (1992), Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988) and Get Smart (1965). He died on 21 August 2007 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Make-Up Department
Anne Spiers was born in 1953. She is known for Chaos (2005), Arabian Nights (2000) and G.B.H. (1991). She was married to Bob Spiers. She died on 21 August 2007.- Additional Crew
- Production Manager
Roy Gerber was born on 23 July 1925 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a production manager, known for The Julie Andrews Hour (1972), The Hollywood Palace (1964) and Here's Edie (1963). He was married to Terrie Gerber and Terrie. He died on 21 August 2007 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.- Costume Designer
- Writer
- Production Designer
Mila Vitelli Valenza was born on 23 March 1923 in Tunis, Tunisia. She was a costume designer and writer, known for Karzan, il favoloso uomo della jungla (1972) and The Electric Chair (1969). She died on 21 August 2007 in Rome, Italy.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Anton Podstraský was born on 1 April 1939. He is known for Pripad pre obhájcu (1964), The Miraculous Virgin (1967) and The Boxer and Death (1963). He died on 21 August 2007 in Bratislava, Slovakia.- Zsuzsa Somogyi was born on 20 February 1945 in Komárom, Hungary. She was an editor, known for Itt járt Mátyás király (1973), Musical TV Theater (1970) and Robog az úthenger (1977). She died on 21 August 2007 in Hungary.
- Actress
- Director
- Soundtrack
Philomene Long was born in Greenwich Village, and was a poet from age eight. She had two principal influences in common with Jack Kerouac: St. Theresa and Huckleberry Finn. At the age of eighteen she entered a convent but after five years behind cloister walls she fled in the middle of the night and migrated to Venice, California where she has lived since the late 1960s. She met beat poet John Thomas in 1968 and married him in 1983; John died in 2002. She was installed as Poet Laureate of Venice in September 2005.- Actor
- Make-Up Department
In-han Jang was born in 1918. He was an actor, known for A Moment to Remember (2004), Thou Shall Not Kill ... But Once (1975) and Oigyeseo on Ulemae (1986). He died on 21 August 2007.- Rose Bampton was born on 28 November 1907 in Lakewood, Ohio, USA. She was married to Wilfrid Pelletier. She died on 21 August 2007 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Menyhért Lakatos was born on 11 April 1926 in Vésztõ, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Meztelen vagy (1972), Átok és szerelem (1985) and A bankett (1982). He died on 21 August 2007 in Budapest, Hungary.- Grace Paley was born on 11 December 1922 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Milestones (1975), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983) and Smesne i druge price (2004). She was married to Robert (Bob) Brayton Nichols and Jesse Paley. She died on 21 August 2007 in Thetford Hill, Vermont, USA.